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Sara Seager presents "Other Earths. Other Life."
SFJAZZ Center
San Francisco, CA
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Sara Seager presents "Other Earths. Other Life."
We are one tool away from learning which distant planets already have life on them and which might be welcoming to life.

MIT Planetary Scientist Sara Seager is working on the tool.  She is chair of the NASA team developing a "Starshade" that would allow a relatively rudimentary space telescope to observe Earth-size planets directly, which would yield atmospheric analysis, which would determine a planet's life-worthiness.  

Despite 1,000-plus exoplanet discoveries by the Kepler spacecraft and the hundreds more expected from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite after 2017, neither instrument can make detailed observation of the atmosphere of small rocky planets, because each star's brilliance overwhelms direct study of the rocky motes that might harbor life.  A Starshade cures that.

A former MacArthur Fellow, Seager is author of Exoplanet Atmospheres (02010) and an astrophysics professor at MIT.  Her maxim: "For exoplanets, anything is possible under the laws of physics and chemistry."

About the Series:
The Seminars About Long-term Thinking were started in 02003 to build a coherent, compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking, to help nudge civilization toward Long Now's goal of making long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare.

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SFJAZZ Center (View)
201 Franklin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States

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Other > Technology

Kid Friendly: No
Dog Friendly: No
Non-Smoking: Yes!
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes!

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Owner: The Long Now Foundation
On BPT Since: May 02, 2008
 
The Long Now Foundation
longnow.org/seminars/02015...


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